How to find companies using AWS that want to save costs?

[Poomba]

I’m building a tool that helps companies visualize their AWS costs and provide suggestions on how to optimize it.

What’s the best way to find companies that use AWS that are spending more every single month?

By AWS, i mean any product whether its S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.

[AznHisoka]

1. You need something called a technographic product to get lists of companies that use a particular technology. Though these products are notorious for having stale data, so make sure you do some cross-checks to ensure it's somewhat accurate (IE. lookup their IPs and see if they're really hosted on AWS). I haven't used Builtwith in awhile, but they're the leader in that category. Bloomberry is another one.

See Builtwith: https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Amazon and Bloomberry: http://bloomberry.com/data/aws/

2. As someone else mentioned in this thread: job postings can be useful. You particularly want to look at job postings that mention AWS AND FinOps. FinOps = basically engineering to save costs for cloud costs. That is a very high signal they're investing in someone who can help them save costs (albeit a lot of job postings these days are fake, so it's not a 100% sure signal)

3. Combine the first 2 methods with headcount data from Linkedin or Cloudflare radar traffic data to find companies that are using AWS and growing the fastest, or having huge traffic spikes. Those are probably highly correlated with the desire to want to reduce AWS costs.

[Poomba]

Didnt think of the FinOps angle - thats a goodd one! The annoying thing about filtering by AWS mentions is that every other company seems to list all the clpud platforms like in a list, even if they use just one of them. Adding FinOps is a good additional filter in that case

[re-thc]

> find companies that use AWS that are spending more every single month

That is likely 99% of companies using AWS.

I doubt that gets anywhere though. >50% of the time the whole thing is political more than pure cost.

[Poomba]

Yep, i guess i mean how to find the ones where the costs is exploding and where its becoming a pain, not just a nuisance they tolerate

[benoau]

Job listings usually have a fair bit of detail on the infrastructure being used.

Technical blogs by the companies too, especially if they've actually blogged about reducing these costs before.

[Poomba]

Yep, job listings definitely are a good place to dig into. Thanks!